Running costs for running a web app
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Running costs for running a web app
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Re: Running costs for running a web app
#2This is a lot of money. I am running my startup for less than $250.00 a month. This is all server costs.
Without a doubt, this cost has increased over time, but in the beginning of the startup, it was just $20 or $30 a month.
Ive built and home grown all of these products or at least what I needed in house.
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Re: Running costs for running a web app
#3What are the strikethroughs for? My assumption is thing you aren't paying for anymore, but wanted to double check since not all have replacements.
Re: Running costs for running a web app
#4Heroku is without a doubt one of the more expensive options out there. SSL being billed per month? Yikes. SSL really should be standard.
Re: Running costs for running a web app
#5This is a lot of money. I am running my startup for less than $250.00 a month. This is all server costs. Without a doubt, this cost has increased over time, but in the beginning of the startup, it was just $20 or $30 a month. Ive built and home grown all of these products or at least what I needed in house. Shameless plug: https://rdnation.com and https://snation.com
Unless you're paying less for the same line items, it's not really useful to say that you're running leaner. You might simply be using fewer tools.
Re: Running costs for running a web app
#6This seems ok given that the startup has generated approximately $60,000 in stripe revenue.
I would try to reduce costs in those Heroku workers... $175/month seems steep.
Re: Running costs for running a web app
#7It costs $5/month to run Sublevel using DigitalOcean plus 21$/year for domain and SSL certificate.
Re: Running costs for running a web app
#8What are the strikethroughs for? My assumption is thing you aren't paying for anymore, but wanted to double check since not all have replacements.
I would also be curious on the rational of why you stopped using those services.
Re: Running costs for running a web app
#9Cloud services can work out super expensive for a startup. To get going often all you need is one server that runs both the database and web server, which you can rent cheaply from any number of hosting companies out there. Sure you have to manage it yourself and it won't scale right off the bat, but sometimes that's fine. This is how we ran Scirra for a long time. Eventually you need to scale up, but that's a nice problem to have!
Re: Running costs for running a web app
#10Heroku is without a doubt one of the more expensive options out there. SSL being billed per month? Yikes. SSL really should be standard.
Heroku is enornmously featuresome and convenient.
Simply not having to think about how to stage, locate and run an app saves a lot of visible and hidden engineering time.
Source: I work for a company which donates engineering time to what is, in some respects, a Heroku competitor (Cloud Foundry).